On the street, Mia grabbed Harry with one hand and Ron with the other, quickly ducking into an unnamed alley.
"Oh my God, Mia, you actually used magic on that girl! The Ministry of Magic will arrest you for this!"
It took Ron and Harry, who had been dragged into the alley, quite a while to come to their senses. They found Mia's reckless behavior utterly unbelievable.
"Don't you know Roy was nearly sentenced by the Ministry of Magic for exposing magic? You're going to get yourself into trouble!"
There was even a hint of admiration in Ron's voice as he said this, because Mia had cast Scourgify without a wand. From childhood until now, he had not learned a single spell.
"Wasn't it because you two were being such blockheads!"
After shaking off the brown-haired little girl, Mia let go of Harry and Ron. She was utterly speechless. Those two blockheads could clearly have run away right then, yet they had insisted on stubbornly confronting that little girl who looked like she was not to be messed with.
"Come on, let's go. No one will know. If that little girl can't find us, she'll surely just think she had a dream. Follow me—we have something important to do!"
Ron and Harry exchanged helpless looks. What could they do? Even the ice cream they had dumped on each other had been bought by Mia. When they saw her heading toward the Leaky Cauldron, a block away, they immediately followed. Even now, neither of them knew what Mia intended to take them to do.
Inside the Leaky Cauldron, Tom, the owner, sat leisurely behind the bar reading that day's Daily Prophet. There were few customers in the morning. Before long, the relaxed owner noticed that Harry's trio, who had just gone